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▪ I. pimple, n.|ˈpɪmp(ə)l|
Also 5 pinple, 6 pymple, pimpel, 6–7 (9 dial.) pumple.
[Origin unknown: connexion with L. papula or papilla has been conjectured; but evidence is wanting. Cf. OE. pipliᵹende shingly, affected with herpes, in Sax. Leechd. I. 266.]
1. A small solid rounded tumour of the skin, usually inflammatory, without, or rarely with, suppuration; a papule or pustule.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 248 Scabies is whanne þe iȝe liddis ben reed & to-swolle, & ful of reed pinplis. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §49 The pockes appere..lyke reed pymples, as brode as a farthynge. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lix. 86 The distilled water..is good against the freckles, spottes, and pimpels of the face. 1633T. James Voy. 87 Our faces were swolne hard out in pumples. a1704T. Brown Sat. Fr. King Wks. 1730 I. 60 My very pimples bilk my face. 1876J. S. Bristowe The. & Pract. Med. (1878) 253 The pimple which results from syphilitic inoculation.
2. fig. A small rounded swelling, as a bud, etc.
1582Stanyhurst æneis Ded. (Arb.) 6, I should bee thoght ouer curious, by prying owt a pimple in a bent. 1784Cowper Task iii. 528 He pinches from the second stalk A pimple, that portends a future sprout. 1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. (1861) 103 The pimples daily grow bigger and bigger... They grow into buttons, which spread into mushrooms. 1881Darwin Veg. Mould vi. 286 On poor pasture land,..the whole surface is sometimes dotted with little pimples,..and these pimples consist of old worm-castings.
b. slang. The head.
1818Sporting Mag. I. 298 Scroggins..planted many clumsy hits upon his adversary's pimple. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Pimple, the head. It must be a diminutive as well as a feeble head which is denominated. 18..Racing Song in Baumann Londinismen (1887) 138/1 Sharp brains in my noble pimple.
†3. ‘A boon companion’ (Farmer). Obs. slang.
1700Congreve Way of World iv. x, The sun's a good Pimple, an honest Soaker.
4. attrib. and Comb., as pimple eruption, pimple face, pimple spot; pimple-faced, pimple-like, pimple-nosed, pimple-spangled adjs.; pimple copper, pimple metal, the product of one of the successive operations in copper-smelting, containing about 75 per cent. or more of copper, and having pimples on the surface from the escape of bubbles of sulphurous acid; pimple-mite, a minute acarid (Demodex folliculorum) which infests the sebaceous follicles of the face (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 104 The same..taketh away pimple-spots out of the face. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 16 Of a crabbed nature, pimple faced, and a creple. 1758–65Goldsm. Ess. i, The pimple-nosed Spirit at the president's right elbow. 1868Joynson Metals 98 The copper—in its form known..as ‘pimple’ copper—is put into the furnace. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 380 Treatment of the pimple metal. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xviii. 298 Minute pimple-like abscesses.
▪ II. ˈpimple, v.
[f. prec. n.]
a. trans. To raise pimples upon; to spot or deface with pimples (in quot. fig.). Also, to cover as with pimples.
b. intr. To become pimply. Also transf., to develop small bulges. Hence ˈpimpling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1604T. M. Black Bk. in Middleton's Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 40 You will pimple your souls with oaths, till you make them as well-favoured as your faces. 1638Venner Via Recta, A Censure (1650) 379 Such as have..red pimpling Faces, and adusted Humours. 1666Pepys Diary 12 July, A rose touching his skin..would make it rise and pimple. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xix. 311 The levee where his freight-car stood was pimpled with dark bulks of merchandise. 1940[implied in pimpling vbl. n. 2]. 1940L. MacNeice Last Ditch 14 The rain of London pimples The ebony street with white. 1961Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 18/4 Caravans and tents pimpling remote villages and hillsides are causing concern to planning authorities. 1970Motoring Which? July 93/2 On all three cars, the rear light surrounds were pimpling and the bumpers had begun rusting. 1972K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me xix. 167 Lurid tents and tasteful pastel caravans pimple the landscape. 1974P. Dickinson Poison Oracle iv. 98 The dunes along the marsh were pimpled with their tents. |